Publications by authors named "Dongcheol Park"

We introduce an improved inert gas bubbling method for solvent deoxygenation, featuring a ventilation path alongside the inert gas inlet to enhance the efficiency and reproducibility. While essential for life, oxygen's reactivity can disrupt scientific and industrial processes by forming unwanted intermediates and deactivating catalysts, necessitating efficient deoxygenation methods. Traditional methods like freeze-pump-thaw (FPT) are effective but time-consuming, require stringent safety measures, and have potential limitations for use with aqueous and biological samples.

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Titanium dioxide has excellent chemical, electrical, and optical properties, as well as good chemical stability. For that reason, it is widely used in many fields of study and industry, such as photocatalysts, organic solar cells, sensors, dental implants, and other applications. Many nanostructures of TiO have been reported, and electrospinning is an efficient practical technique that has a low cost and high efficiency.

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Despite advances of lanthanide-doped upconversion (UC) materials, the applications such as light-emitting diode and biological imaging are limited by low quantum efficiency. For this context, the understanding of unique interactions between the doped-lanthanides and the host crystals has attracted a huge amount of the researcher's interest. In particular, it was revealed that doping lanthanide ions in a non-centrosymmetric site of host lattice is the cause of relaxation of the Laporte selection rule in the 4f-4f transition of lanthanide ions.

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Photocatalysts are the most important technology in air pollution removal and the detoxification of organic materials. Doping and complexation are among the most used methods to improve the efficiency of photocatalysts. Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanomaterials are widely used materials for photocatalysts and the degradation of toxic materials.

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  • Black jujube is created by aging dried jujube, which affects its moisture, sugar content, and pH, leading to increased acidity and a color change from red to black over time.
  • As aging progresses, sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose, enhancing the total reducing sugar content and increasing organic acids like oxalic and citric acid.
  • The aging process also boosts the total polyphenol contents, particularly in water extracts, and the antioxidant and α-glucosidase inhibitory activities improve significantly, indicating potential health benefits.
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The goal of this study was to evaluate the anticancer effect of Prunus salicina Lindl. cv. Soldam at three maturity stages (immature, midmature and mature stages).

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Intestinal metabolism of the subtoxic level of selenite in rats was investigated using a double-perfusion system, which is an in situ, in vitro preparation in which the intestinal lumen and its vasculature are perfused simultaneously. The toxicity of sodium selenite was determined by inhibition of 3-O-methyl glucose (3MG) absorption and by histological examination. Levels of 1.

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